Homemade wooden knives for your kids.

I have one my mother whittled on July 16, 1925, according to the marking -- more of a stick, really. I believe she intended to wreak revenge on one or another of her six sisters who had been mean to her (she was the youngest). She painted it gray, but by the time the paint was dry she had forgotten about whatever had angered her. I think I inherited the knife gene from her. I spent a lot of formative years in our basement workshop making wooden swords, but alas, never found a dragon. Maybe just as well ;) .
 
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